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Nov 14
Having a variety of brushes in Photoshop gives you more options, and having them very high resolution will allow you to create designs that can be printed and used in large format. Here are 75 collections of free brushes for you to choose from!
Tags: Brushes, creative inspiration, CS3, CS4, Design, High Rez, Photoshop, Resolution
Nov 03
Chase Jarvis does it again, explaining how he executes a high speed photography production with post production composting to produce magical results.
Tags: Chase Jarvis, Compositing, High speed photography, Photoshop
Aug 13
http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/250-free-hi-res-splatter-paint-watercolor-photoshop-brushes/
Don’t have the time to buy the right materials and create your own traditional-style-painting Photoshop Brushes? Maybe you just don’t know where to start? No worries - we’ve found nearly 250 of the best Splatter, Paint, Spray, and Watercolor brushes that we think you’ll love!
Aug 13
http://designreviver.com/freebies/400-time-saving-photoshop-actions/
Photoshop Actions are extremely useful in both saving time as well as learning new features that you may not know. They can be used to help standardize your final project better, cut down on repetitive tasks, and to assist you in a bit of creative inspiration. We have collected a handful of great (and free) downloadable PS Actions in this article and also included a nice tutorial on creating your own Actions.
Jul 14
Are you familiar with iStockPhoto.com, a popular website for buying and selling stock photography? iStockPhoto also has a”Steel Cage Battle” section to their forums, where designers battle it out over several days. As part of the rules, designers must incorporate portions of the opponent’s most recent design into their next visual attack. (For an example of a steel cage battle, check out these images, created by the MPC’s Brian Palmer and Instructional Technologist Nick Smerker. Images also shown below)
Now for the point of this post… iStockPhoto is getting ready to hold it’s yearly Battle Royal. This is 85 days of design battles, head to head with other designers, until only one designer remains. First prize? $5000.00!
How can you get involved? If you don’t already have a free account with iStockPhoto, go get one. Don’t waste time, because I think there is a day or two waiting period before you can post to the forums (to help prevent spamming the forums), and the Battle Royal is part of the forums. Better yet, if you email me, I can “invite you”, which will get you 3 free credits for downloading stock images, video, audio, flash, and vector images.
The battle begins this Thursday, July 17th, and runs for 85 days. So even if you just wanted to follow along with the design mayhem, that would be fun too. You’ll be seeing some of the world’s best designers in action, always good inspiration for your next Photoshop project.
Have fun, and good luck!
Images from the battle between Nick Smerker and Brian Palmer:
Round one:
Nick’s first attack:
Brian’s response:
Round two:
Nick’s response:
Brian’s response:
Tags: Battle Royal, design competition, iStockPhoto, Photoshop, Steel Cage Battle
Apr 27
Are you fed up with all your designs having the same boring fonts? Jessica Hupp from Free Geekery has compiled a nice collection of 101 free fonts for designers. They are categorized into a few groups:
- Grunge
- Handwriting
- Familiar
- Tech
- Unique
- Fancy
- Bold
- Clean & Simple
- Simple with a Twist
Tags: Design, free fonts, illustrator, indesign, Photoshop
Mar 25
Follow along with this step by step tutorial to produce this cool effect.
Mar 25
A free Photoshop action that softens skin tones while retaining important skin details.
Instructions to install and use found here.
Tags: Action, Photography, Photoshop, portraits, retouching
Mar 25
Renown photographer W. Brandon Voges has put together an amazing video showing how he created this composite photograph using Adobe Photoshop.
Tags: Adobe, Composite, Paintball, Photo, Photography, Photoshop